SoftwareOne's FinOps for Cloud helps businesses optimize cloud spending by providing real-time insights, budget tracking, and cost management. This solution enables teams to allocate resources efficiently, control expenses, and drive financial accountability across cloud environments.
FinOps integrates with public cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
Built on the open-source OptScale platform from Hystax, the FinOps platform contains several features that enhance your cloud usage experience by providing detailed insights and management capabilities without actively interfering with your environment.
FinOps for Cloud helps you unlock efficiency and savings in the cloud. The following are some of the key features:
Cost explorer – Analyze your cloud spending with clarity by breaking down your cost structure, uncovering trends, and identifying opportunities to optimize spending across your organization.
Recommendations – Use recommendations to discover hidden inefficiencies in your cloud infrastructure, overlooked configuration issues, and security risks to optimize performance, reduce costs, and strengthen your cloud posture.
Budgeting tools – Set, track, and adjust cloud budgets with built-in forecasting tools, stay ahead of unexpected costs, and ensure every team stays aligned with financial goals throughout the cloud lifecycle.
Ownership and accountability – Empower teams to take ownership of their cloud spending and promote responsible consumption with clear cost allocation, usage breakdowns, and automated alerts.
Analytics and Insights – Gain insights into your cloud usage and spending across different platforms, and use dashboards and analytics to quickly identify inefficiencies and take action before costs spiral out of control.
To learn more about FinOps for Cloud and how to use it, see the . To stay updated on the latest changes and features, see the
You can order a FinOps for Cloud subscription from the SoftwareOne Marketplace. For details, see .
Once the order is complete, we'll email your account administrator with instructions on and manage your organization.
Order a FinOps for Cloud subscription from the Marketplace.
This tutorial describes how you can order a FinOps for Cloud subscription from the SoftwareOne Marketplace. This tutorial focuses on creating a new agreement.
Before starting this tutorial, make sure you have the following:
A licensee in the active state or permission to . Licensee selection is required to set up a new agreement.
Provide the contact details of the administrator managing your FinOps account. You must include the admin's name and email address so we can send the login details directly to them.
Start the ordering process
To start the process:
Go to Catalog > Products.
Select SoftwareOne FinOps for Cloud.
On the details page, select Buy now.
Create an agreement and add the FinOps item to your order
Complete the following steps:
Select agreement – Select Create agreement to start creating the new agreement.
Select licensee – Select an existing licensee. You can also add a new licensee by selecting Create licensee.
Agreement – Provide the following details, then select Next:
Organization name – (Required) Enter the name of your organization. This name represents your environment in FinOps for Cloud. If required, you can update the name later from the Settings page in FinOps.
Currency – (Required) Select the currency you are currently billed in by your service provider.
Administrator – (Required) Complete the contact form. You must provide the contact details of the administrator managing your account. This admin is assigned the
Items – Choose SoftwareOne FinOps for Cloud, then select Add items. Select Next.
Review and submit the purchase order
Complete the following steps:
Details – Provide reference details for the order, then select Next.
Review order – Review the order details, go through the terms and conditions, then select Place order.
Summary – Review your order summary, then select View details to open the order details page, or select Close.
After you place the order, we'll verify the details. You can track your order on the order details page.
After the order is complete, we'll email your account administrator with instructions on how to sign in to your FinOps account. After signing in, your administrator can connect the data source to start importing data.
For more details, see the FinOps for Cloud documentation.
Make sure to choose the correct currency, as it can't be changed after the agreement has been created. The currency must be the same currency that your cloud provider (like AWS or Azure) uses for billing. For example, if you are billed in USD, you must select USD from the list. If you choose a different currency, you cannot import the cost and usage data from your cloud provider.
Terminate your FinOps for Cloud subscription.
This tutorial describes how to cancel your FinOps purchase order by submitting a termination order for the agreement.
Terminating the agreement disables the corresponding organization in FinOps.
It means you cannot sign in or switch to this organization and access data such as data sources, pools, and users.
Ensure that the agreement linked to the purchase order is currently active.
Start the termination order
To start the order:
Go to Marketplace > Agreements.
Select the agreement you want to terminate.
On the agreement details page, select the dropdown arrow, then choose Terminate.
Submit the termination order
Complete the following steps:
Items – Make sure the new item quantity is 0, then select Next.
Order details – Provide reference details for the order, then select Next.
After submitting the order, you can view real-time order updates on the order details page.
When your order has been processed, both the agreement and the subscription are marked as Terminated, and the corresponding organization is disabled in FinOps.
Review order – Review the order details, go through the terms and conditions, then select Place order.
Summary – Review your order summary, then select View details to open the order details page, or select Close.
